Carmen Calatayud

Poet

San Antonio, TX
Texas US
Email: 
carmencalatayud7@gmail.com
Website: 
carmencalatayud.com

Author's Bio

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press, in conjunction with Letras Latinas, in 2024. Her first book In the Company of Spirits (Press 53) was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Calatayud is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.

 

Writers Retreats: 
Macondo Writers Workshop
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2016)
,
The Poet's Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing, 2016)
,
DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004)
,
Mondo Barbie (St. Martin's Press, 1993)
Books:
This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press, 2024)
,
In the Company of Spirits (Press 53, 2012)
Journals:
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
,
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
,
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art
,
Poet Lore
,
Rogue Agent
,
Tahoma Literary Review
Prizes won: 

Larry Neal Poetry Award

Best of La Bloga Award

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Hispanic
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Mount Holly, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Falls Church, VA
Virginia
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Last update: Oct 05, 2024